UC Law SF Students Honored with 2025 CEB Awards for Excellence in Legal Writing
Julia Hunter ’26, Nicole Johnson ’26, and Alfred Si ’26 were recently awarded the 2025 Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing (LRW).
The awards were presented during the annual UC Law SF Moot Court Awards Ceremony, held April 15, 2025. Winners were selected by a panel of UC Law SF’s distinguished alumni and former LRW professors, from the best appellate briefs submitted from each Spring 2024 LRW section.
Hunter is executive articles editor of UC Law Journal and president of the UC Law SF Chapter of the American Constitution Society. She externed with Justice Leondra Kruger at the California Supreme Court last summer and competed at the Emory Civil Rights and Liberties Competition with the Moot Court Team in the fall. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in civil rights and impact litigation.
Johnson has worked with unique founders (in both AI and environmental tech sectors) through UC Law SF’s Start-up Legal Garage externship program, debated politically charged transgender rights issues as a Moot Court team competitor, and mentored LRW I & II students as a teaching assistant. This summer, she is excited to start her summer associate position with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she will focus on corporate transactional work. After graduation, she plans to focus her practice on advising later-stage startups on exit strategies.
Si holds the craft of legal writing in high regard, having received the top grades in both LRW I and II. He is a teaching assistant for LRW courses and is an incoming senior online publications editor for the flagship UC Law Journal. He has participated in UC Law SF’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, in which he secured favorable tax resolutions through strong client advocacy. He also served as director of the UC Law Association of Tax Students and Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. He currently serves as the School & Youth Partnerships Chair for the Law Empowerment and Access Program (LEAP). After graduation, Si plans to pursue a career in tax law and hopes to return to UC Law SF to teach LRW to the next generation of attorneys.
CEB is a nonprofit program of the University of California that has provided California-specific legal research tools to the California legal community since 1947. As part of its public service mission, CEB has provided students, faculty, and staff at accredited California law schools free access to CEB products through the AccessLaw Program. These resources include a primary law research database, 150+ secondary sources, a MCLE library, DailyNews, and practice-oriented tools such as workflows, how-to guides, strategy notes, standard documents, and charts and checklists. All CEB materials are created, augmented, and maintained by the CEB Contributing Community of over 1,200 active California attorneys and judges.
This year marks the 12th year of CEB’s partnership with UC Law SF to award its students for their exemplary performance in LRW.